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Hello Sorrel, greetings and welcome to the Narutopedia! Thanks for your edit to the Gelel Laser page.
We do hope that you will stay for a long time. Enjoy your stay as we work to become the best Naruto info site out there. BELIEVE IT!
If you're looking for something to do why not look over the Forums or more specifically Narutopedia Collaboration for a list of projects we're working on. And the Community portal has a lot of recent discussions and places to go listed on it.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- TheUltimate3 (talk) 00:35, 19 March 2009
Hello Sorrel, I notice you have been making a number of edits using the incorrect romaji for names.
Please note that there are two types of romaji in common use. Wāpuro rōmaji which fansubs and scanalations use, and revised Hepburn romanization which is used by Wikipedia and likely also used by both Viz and Databooks when the official English and romanized versions of names are created.
We use hepburn romanization, while fansubs use Wāpuro, this means a lot of names copied directly from fansubs are incorrect. The main difference between Wāpuro and revised hepburn is that Wāpuro uses "ou" and "uu" while revised hepburn uses "ō" and "ū". Names like "Yurinojou" coming from fan material should be converted to "Yurinojō" when posted here.
See the Narutopedia:Naming policy for more information, ShounenSuki is also a helpful person to go to when you have the Japanese for a character's name and you want the romaji and other information for it. ~NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) Mar 19, 2009 @ 02:25 (UTC)
Will U stop makin completely pointless edits on evry single page.....what r u tryin to do anyway...first it was the romanji, and now this.... AlienGamer (talk)
- To add to that, you're wasting your time by changing redirects. The purpose of redirects is so that an entire term doesn't need to be written out when linked to and/or a few dozen pages don't need to be updated when a page is moved. Similarly, changing things like [[jutsu]] to [[Jutsu|jutsu]] makes no difference whatsoever. I know you mean well, but your time would be better spent on something else. ~SnapperTo 19:46, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
- And to add to that, changin simple to capital, adding or removing a last name, changin pain to naguto, and naguto to pain is not helping...its just very annoying.....please, for the love of god, dont make such minor edits...AlienGamer Talk
your re-edit.
i edited the Hiramekarei page with my own knowledge. when raiga first took out his lightning fangs, they were wrapped up almost to the point of being ovals. he used lightning to take off the wrappings. your change made me feel idiotic, but i watched that episode again, and i was right, please don't change it again.
please stop doing what you're doing with the references. Find other ways to boost your edit count. Like maybe, possibly, actually making useful edits.--Cerez365™☺ 20:46, April 17, 2011 (UTC)
Apologies Sorrel-us. Words flew from finger absent thought. <.< >.>--Cerez365™☺ 21:35, April 17, 2011 (UTC)
Hi, I'm Kais. I need your help, please. i ACCIDENTALLY was trying to edit a page by adding an image to a page the page is called Eight Trigrams: Lion Palm its a jutsu created by hinata. I did NOT mean to mess it up. May you please fix it
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The original inspired piece is the badass necklace. This piece was inspired by a friend (Maija) who was getting ready to depart on a month long journey hiking the Appalachian trail (with her two dogs nonetheless!). I was awestruck and inspired when she told me about her decision to tackle this goal. I made her the piece to serve as a reminder of the badass that she was going to need to be out on that trail EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
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The UK's finest new blues rock band, THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, will be special guests to THE ROLLING STONES on four European dates next month. The band will also play Download on June 13th and T in the Park on July 12th.
In little more than a year, THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT have gone from playing pubs to selling out the Shepherd's Bush Empire and now playing stadiums with THE ROLLING STONES. Apparently dreams do come true!
Guitarist Paul Sayer says:
"I remember hearing 'Tumbling Dice' for the first time when I was a kid and it made me want to pick up a guitar and write songs. They're the best rock and roll band in the world. We've been told Mick personally asked for us. So impressive that the band are still in touch and interested in new music. It's gonna be a blast!"
Jun. 01 – Zurich, Switzerland – Letzigrund Stadium
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Jun. 16 – Vienna, Austria – ErnstHappel Stadium
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Young aspiring Duel Masters, grab your gauntlet, choose your mighty creatures!
Prepare to experience the world of KAIJUDO!
Produced by Hasbro Studios and Wizards of the Coast
Featuring an All-Star Voice Cast of Scott Wolf, Freddy Rodriguez, John DiMaggio, Oded Fehr, Phil LaMarr, David Sobolov, Kari Wahlgren and Jason Marsden
DVD Set Includes an Exclusive Alternative Art "Kenina" Trading Card Inside!
This holiday season, kids and families are invited on a wondrous journey into the imaginative world of KAIJUDO: RISE OF THE DUEL MASTERS™, a current animated hit series produced by Hasbro Studios and Wizards of the Coast. Featuring the voice talent of popular actors Scott Wolf, Freddy Rodriguez, John DiMaggio,Oded Fehr, Phil LaMarr, David Sobolov, Kari Wahlgren and Jason Marsden, this popular action-fantasy series offers an inspiring story about a young hero, Ray, who possesses the rare ability to befriend and duel alongside fantastical creatures from a parallel dimension. It's up to Ray to master the ancient art of KAIJUDO in order to protect both worlds. Moreover, this adventure-filledseries highlights the tales of friendship, loyalty and determination, and further addresses the show's central theme of anti-bullying.
On December 4, 2012, the whole family will be highly entertained by the exciting storytelling, incredible action and awesome creature combats when KAIJUDO: RISE OF THE DUEL MASTERS™ – CREATURES UNLEASHED DVD hits store shelves in the U.S and Canada from Shout! Factory, in collaboration with Hasbro Studios and Wizards of the Coast. Featuring five adventurous episodes, an exclusive alternative art "Kenina" playable trading card, and special bonus feature A Look at KAIJUDO: Rise of the Duel Masters, this DVD is priced to own with a suggested retail price of $14.97.
Ray, a 14-year-old who lives with his mom and grandfather, has been recruited by the Duel Masters to study KAIJUDO – "The Way of the Creature." They chose Ray for his natural talent as a creature tamer and duelist. Along with pals Allie and Gabe, Ray learns to work with the magical creatures… in their world. Each duel he fights yields new experience and allies in both worlds. The Veil, which has divided the two worlds for a thousand years, is crumbling. Hope lies with those who can masters the art of KAIJUDO.
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The Natural, Part 3
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Total Program Running Time: +/- 110 minutes
KAIJUDO: RISE OF THE DUEL MASTERS™ is the newest franchise from Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro. Featuring two online games – Battle Game and Kaijudo Online™ – hosted on Kaijudo.com, a trading card game (TCG), the television series KAIJUDO: RISE OF THE DUEL MASTERS™ airing on The Hub TV Network in the U.S and on Teletoon in Canada, and a new home entertainment DVD product line distributed by Shout! Factory. KAIJUDO:RISE OF THE DUEL MASTERS™ provides multi-platform entertainment that the whole family will enjoy.
About Hasbro
Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) is a branded play company providing children and families around the world with a wide-range of immersive entertainment offerings based on the Company's world class brand portfolio. From toys and games, to television programming, motion pictures, digital gaming and a comprehensive licensing program, Hasbro strives to delight its global customers with innovative, well-known and beloved brands such as TRANSFORMERS, LITTLEST PET SHOP, NERF, PLAYSKOOL, MY LITTLE PONY, G.I. JOE, MAGIC: THE GATHERING and MONOPOLY. TheCompany's Hasbro Studios develops and produces television programming for markets around the world. Programming in the U.S. is distributed on The Hub TV Network, a multi-platform joint venture between Hasbro and Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK). Through the Company's deep commitment to corporate social responsibility, including philanthropy, Hasbro is helping to build a safe and sustainable world for future generations and to positively impact the lives of millions of children and families every year. It has been recognized for its efforts by being named one of the "World's Most Ethical Companies" and is ranked as one of Corporate Responsibility Magazine's "100 Best Corporate Citizens." Learn more at www.hasbro.com. © 2012 Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
About Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform entertainment company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD and Blu-Ray™ offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras. Shout's audio division boasts GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable "best of" compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creativeacquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com
About Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS), is the leader in entertaining the lifestyle gamer. The company holds an exclusive patent on trading card games (TCGs) and their method of play and produces the premier trading card game, Magic: The Gathering. Wizards is also a leading publisher of roleplaying games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, and publisher of fantasy series fiction with numerous New York Times best-sellers. For more information, visit the Wizards of the Coast Web site at www.wizards.com.
Kaijudo, Duel Masters, and all related logos and character names and their distinctive likenesses TM 2012 Wizards of the Coast/Shogakukan/Mitsui-Kids.


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Primer: Link-Layer SecurityBy Kevin Fogarty Print
A new way of looking at wireless security is helping lock down porous corporate nets.What is it? Imagine you're driving to a military base. Before you can even get onto the property, you're stopped and have to prove that the car is yours and the car itself is allowed to drive on the base, and that the base's chief of security can personally vouch for the car. Then you're allowed to go up to the gate and prove your own identity. That's how link-layer security works. On wireless networks, it doesn't allow a laptop, handheld or other computing device to send any information over the network until its connection request and password have been accepted.
How's that different from an ordinary log-in? Even before you log in to a regular wireless or a wired connection, your computer is exchanging information with the network. Mostly it and the nearest switch or router are just identifying themselves, but there's still a level of communication that a cracker could exploit. Link-layer security doesn't allow even that.
So how do you get access? Your wireless device first has to send a request to the nearest access point, which asks for its identification and password. Your device responds, and the access point passes the ID to an authentication server, which accepts or rejects it. If the server accepts the ID, it tells the access point, the access point tells your laptop, and off you go. If not, the only bits your laptop ever sends over the network are its request for a connection.
This technique not only prevents unauthorized people from connecting to the network, it also keeps them from using "man in the middle" and other attacks that may not require the cracker to log in. For a man-in-the-middle attack, a cracker intercepts the communication between two authorized users and slips in his own material, without disrupting the data stream enough for either of the other two to notice. Virtual private networks or other methods can encrypt the stream but not prevent a cracker from connecting, says Richard Rushing, chief security officer for wireless-security vendor AirDefense in Alpharetta, Ga.
What do I have to buy? Not a lot. The primary protocol is 802.1X, which should become a formal standard sometime next year. Many wireless vendors are building the existing version of 802.1X into their products. Microsoft has also built 802.1X support into Windows XP, but if you're using a different operating system, you may have to buy special software for your laptops. The preferred authentication server is one running the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) protocol, but an ordinary domain controller will do the job. If you use handheld scanners or other wireless devices that are a couple of years old, however, you may have to replace them.
What's the downside? The amount of work to get it running. If you've been building out wireless networks, you may have to do some backtracking. You'll have to set up laptops with the right software and configure them with one of a variety of authentication and encryption algorithms, many of which are not interoperable. If you haven't already, you'll have to standardize your access and security products.
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About the International Space Station
In partnership with the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada, Europe is sharing in the greatest international project of all time - the International Space Station. The 360-tonne International Space Station has more than 820 cubic metres of pressurised space - enough room for its crew of six persons and a vast array of scientific experiments.
Station construction began in November 1998 with the launch of Russia's Zarya module. Assembly was delayed due to the tragic loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, which also resulted in the decision to retire all Space Shuttles after completion of the Station. The last major part of the Space Station delivered by a Space Shuttle was the AMS-02 instrument in May 2011.
One more pressurised module will be attached to the Station: Russia's Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module is as big as Zarya and Zvezda. It will be installed on the Earth-facing docking port of the Zvezda module.
European participation
ESA is responsible for two key Station elements: the European Columbus laboratory and the Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV).
The Columbus laboratory forms a substantial part of the Station's research capability. Fitted with ten interchangeable payload racks, Columbus is a multifunction laboratory that specialises in research in fluid physics, materials science and life sciences.
Europe's second biggest contribution was the Automated Transfer Vehicle, a supply ship lifted into orbit on an Ariane-5 launcher.
ATV carried up to 7 tonnes of cargo including provisions, scientific payloads and propellant. Once docked, the craft used its engines to boost the Station to a higher orbit counteracting the faint drag of Earth's atmosphere.
After the first spacecraft, ATV Jules Verne, ATV Johannes Kepler was launched in 2011 and the next one ATV Edoardo Amaldi was launched in 2012. The fourth, ATV Albert Einstein, was launched in 2013 and the fifth and final ATV, Georges Lemaître was launched in 2014.
European scientists and engineers contribute to equipment and design across much of the International Space Station. More than a third of pressurised Station elements are designed and built in Europe.
The European-made Cupola is a dome-like structure with a panoramic window that is used as a control room for astronauts operating Station equipment. Cupola's circular top window is 80 cm in diameter making it the largest window ever to fly in space, while six side windows open the view to all directions.
In fact, European technology plays an important part in most Station sections. For example in the United States Destiny module, Europe installed a material science rack and freezer units. The Japanese module Kibo also uses a European freezer.
European astronauts and users
The first European astronaut flew in space in 1983 and the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne has been training men and women for missions since 1998. The first European to serve a tour of duty on the International Space Station was Umberto Guidoni who visited the Station in April 2001.
Only a tiny fraction of the Europeans working on the Space Station will ever go to space. Large dedicated teams of engineers, scientists, technicians and support personnel make spaceflight possible. European mission control centres run experiments and share Station command with Russia and the United States. Astronauts will always be part of a large scientific team on Earth.
User Support and Operation Centres in Europe are responsible for the use and implementation of European payloads on the International Space Station. Under ESA management, the Operation Centres conduct tasks needed to prepare and operate experiments. They act as the link between science teams on ground and the Space Station.
Participation in the International Space Station allows thousands of Europe's brightest people at hundreds of universities and companies in ESA's Member States to work on the leading edge of science and engineering.
Now that the Station is fully assembled and astronauts spend more time on science people European scientists are among the first to benefit from the space research facilities they have helped to build.


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Good afternoon, all. It's absolutely gorgeous in the Great Garden State; a little warmer than most would like for September, especially after a cool spell of a couple of days, but even though it's a bummer, summer is winding down. I reported back to work on Friday, and was back in the building today. Truth be told, I'm excited to be back and I'm more than ready for fall. This summer has been a rough one for me, and even though I haven't been updating regularly (it's been over a month since the last time I posted), I'm back and ready to take my life back from whatever gross apathy and complacency has settled upon me. And I'm going to start with this blog.
Some thoughts for today: as I was walking the boardwalk (trying to get my weight under control), a sweet old man stopped me to tell me about a turtle he saw. I listened patiently, nodded encouragingly, and then simply kept on keeping on. It made me think about how all anyone needs is a little compassion, a little effort on the part of someone else to make them feel like they matter. I'm going to do my best to do more of that.
WEEKLY WRITING PROMPT #6.2017: Months after receiving a gunshot wound to the head, a patient is discharged from the hospital. She wears a pendant made from the bullet that was embedded in her skull.
Luna stared deep into her own reflection and she was trembling. She was in the ladies' room of a fancy Italian restaurant that required patrons bring their own alcohol. She was dressed in an emerald green dress that glimmered like the scales of a fish – or a mermaid's tale, if she was feeling especially fanciful – when the light caught it in just the right way. Her best girlfriends had insisted the color did wonders for her complexion and for her eyes. Luna assumed that same would be said of her hair, as it was the same shade of brown as her eyes, but her hair was gone. Her head was shaved. And although it had had about four months to grow back, her hair was taking its sweet time to return. The imperfections of the shape of her skull were exposed for all to see, and she felt so vulnerable. Her trembling hand moved to the side of her head, and trembling fingers traced the scar that ran from the front of her skull all the way to the back. It was ugly and purple and bloated, and it separated her hair in an unfashionable line.
The bullet entering and exiting her skull had done the same, had separated her life by an unfashionable, hard line. There was life before the bullet, and then there was life after the bullet.
Luna had been walking her overweight, long-haired Chihuahua named Teddy in the park just a block or two from her apartment building. It had been a marvel of a September day; warm enough to forego a coat beneath an unblemished blue sky. She saw the kids playing basketball and heard their raucous shouts and laughter. They added to the atmosphere, became ambient sound, and so she paid them no special attention. If she had, she might have dropped to the pavement when everyone else had.
In the shot of a lifetime, a stray bullet from an attempted drive-by shooting traveled through a chain link fence, across a blazing blacktop, and through another chain link fence before coming to halt inside the skull of Luna. She collapsed to the ground, falling at the same rate as the blood that spurted from the wound and splattered the fence. It made a neat pool on the ground around her, but Luna didn't really remember all of that. She didn't remember anything. It was all a black void until she woke up in the hospital about a month later.
When Luna was released, the doctors presented her with the bullet they had extracted from her skull during surgery. She had it melted down and molded into a neat oval, and she wore it around her neck. Her mother said she was morbid, and her friends never talked about it, but all of them had encouraged her to move on, to keep living, to be happy for her second chance. And Luna supposed she was.
But it was hard. It was hard looking like some oddly feminine monster of Dr. Frankenstein's while trying to date. And it was hard to keep from crying when someone asked about the pendant she was wearing. And it was hard to escape to be confronted by a mirror.


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Southern Ringneck Snake
Scientific name: Diadophis punctatus punctatus (LINNAEUS 1766)
* Currently accepted name
* scientific names used through time
- Coluber punctatus – LINNAEUS 1766
- Natrix punctatus – MERREM 1820
- Homalosoma punctata – WAGLER 1830
- Calamaria punctata – SCHLEGEL 1837
- Ablabes punctatus – DUMÉRIL, BIBRON & DUMÉRIL 1854
- Diadophis punctatus – DUMÉRIL, STEBBINS 1985
Description: Average adult size is 6-10 inches (15.2-25.4 cm), record is 18.9 inches (48 cm). Adults are small and slender-bodied with a black body and yellow, cream, or orange ring across the neck. The belly is bright yellow, orange, or red with a single row of half-moon spots down the center. The scales are smooth, and there are 15-17 dorsal scale rows at midbody. The pupil is round. Juvenile color is similar to that of the adult.
A. Top of the head (notice the large plate-like scales on the top of the head)
B. Smooth scales
C. Elongated scales below the tail (subcaudal scales) are typically divided
D. Front (face view) of the head
E. Side of the head
Range: It is found throughout Florida, including the Upper, Middle, and extreme Lower Florida Keys. Outside of Florida, it is found throughout the southeastern US from Alabama to southern New Jersey.
Habitat: Commonly found in meadows, prairies, pinelands, hardwood hammocks, and melaleuca stands.
Comments: HARMLESS (Non-Venomous) and it rarely bites when handled. When startled or threatened, it may coil and raise the tail displaying its brightly-colored underside. It may emit a strong smelling musk from the glands just inside the cloaca.
The Southern Ringneck Snake is a terrestrial burrower, frequently found in or underneath logs or other debris. It feeds on small earthworms, slugs, frogs, anoles, geckos, skinks, snakes, and salamanders.
It lays eggs. During the summer usually 2-8 whitish eggs are laid in moist areas such as underneath or inside rotting logs. Sometimes a communal nest site may be used by several different females. Newborns are 3-4 inches (7.6-10 cm).
Ringneck Snakes are the most frequently found snakes in Florida swimming pools — they crawl in to get a drink and then cannot climb out because they are too small to reach the lip of the pool. If you find one in your pool, lift it out with the leaf skimmer or a dipnet and turn it loose in the shrubs where it can get back to eating things you do not want in your garden.
Comparison with other species: The Key Ringneck Snake (Diadophis punctatus acricus) has a slate gray colored body and an indistinct or missing neck ring. The Florida Brown Snake (Storeria victa) has a light colored stripe down its back, flecking on its sides, and a distinct brown spot under the eye.


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Designed by IBM in 2010 for the LRZ of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the SuperMUC combines 155,000 general purpose core processors with 320 terabytes of main memory to help scientists from across Europe study all fields of science, from the simulation of the evolution of the universe under the influence of dark matter, to the propagation of earthquakes, and much more. Unique to the design, is the SuperMUC's innovative "High Temperature Liquid Cooling" system that uses hot water to cool the system processors rather than compressed air and fans. As a result, the multicore computer consumes 40 percent less energy than the LRZ's previous supercomputers, dramatically reducing the organization's energy costs. .
In addition to the innovative processing and cooling, the SuperMUC features 12 petabytes of permanent disk storage. To provide archiving and backup storage for the center's primary and secondary scientific data, IBM teamed with Business Partner SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH, to create a high-capacity, highly-scalable storage system that consists of computers, disk systems and two massive tape libraries in a storage area network.
"What we needed was a system that could store the data streams of one of the fastest computers in Europe, using standard components to keep costs low," said Werner Baur, director of the Storage Group at LRZ. "It had to be scalable so that it is able to keep up with the development stages of the SuperMUC and it had to be able to integrate with our IT environment. That's exactly what we've got."
High-performance solution with flexible components
The intelligent archiving solution consists of two highly scalable IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library systems equipped with 22 LTO 5 drives and 11,000 tape cartridges. All told, the solution has a storage capacity of 16.5 petabytes and is scalable to 40 petabytes.
An IBM System x3850 acts as the archive server and is responsible for the management of metadata, the control of the mass storage device, and the control of the data flow. To ensure fast access to archived data, IBM System Storage DS3500 and IBM Storwize V7000 systems are used as high capacity disks, along with 6 terabytes of solid state drive (SSD) memory.
"The project at LRZ achieves the tremendous possibilities of IBM Storage technology for a challenging IT environment," said IBM Storage Manager, Michael Achtelik. "Through its expandability, the system also provides a long-term solution."
The LRZ is a joint data center of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, the Technical University of Munich and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and is one of the biggest supercomputing centers in Europe. It operates high-performance computing systems for all Bavarian universities and a federal high performance computer, which is available for scientific research at German universities. LRZ provides more than 100,000 users at the universities of Munich and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and operates with general IT services. It runs an extensive communication infrastructure with disk and automated magnetic tape storage for backing up large amounts of data. Since July 2012, it is also the home of the supercomputer SuperMUC, currently one of the fastest computers in Europe. SuperMUC is an IBM System x iDataPlex with a total of more than 155,000 cores. It is distinguished by the fact that it is being cooled with hot water. This cooling concept was developed by IBM and is being used on a large scale the first time with SuperMUC.
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Thrace Travel Guide
Thrace (Trakya in Turkish), the historic territory bounded by the rivers Danube and Nestos and the Aegean, Marmara and Black seas, is today divided roughly equally among Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. In ancient times it was home to warlike tribes, whose bizarre religions and unruly habits presented a continual headache for rulers bent on subduing them. Contemporary life is decidedly less colourful. Until the late 1960s, nearly all of Thrace was a military security zone, off-limits to foreigners. Most of the area is now unrestricted, though the towns remain heavily garrisoned.
The flatter terrain of southern Thrace has long since been denuded of trees, while much of the coast has fallen prey to estates of concrete holiday homes – seasonal barbecue pads for İstanbul's workers. Inland is staunchly agricultural; in summer a sea of yellow sunflowers, grown for oil, spreads for many kilometres. Further west, in the wetter lands around Üzünköprü, rice is predominant; to the north, the rolling Istranca hills with their dense forests of oak and conifers hide itinerant charcoal burners and myriad fish farms raising rainbow trout. Across the whole region opencast mines extract sand and gravel from the prehistoric sea bed.
The E80 motorway from İstanbul to the main Thracian town of Edirne runs parallel to the route of the Roman and Byzantine Via Egnatia, which later became the medieval route to the Ottoman holdings in Europe, and is now the D100 highway. Many towns along this road began life as Roman staging posts, a role continued under the Ottomans who endowed each with a civic monument or two. Few spots have much to detain you, though keep an eye out for fine old bridges, which like the road itself may be Ottoman reworkings of Roman or Byzantine originals. The best of these is the quadruple Büyükçekmece span, crossing the neck of an estuary west of İstanbul and built by the great architect Mimar Sinan in 1563.
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Joseph Mayer gave his collection to the Liverpool Museum in 1867. Ancient ivories are in the World Museum today, while Gothic ivories from the Fejérváry-Mayer collection are in the Walker Art Gallery. The catalogue of the Liverpool ivories by Margaret Gibson was published in 1994 (see this link). The National Museums Liverpool Blog provides a bit more information on these ivories. When it comes to Gothic pieces, you can learn a lot more via the Gothic Ivories Project of the Courtauld Institute of Art. Search for the name of Fejérváry to get a list of the ivories from his collection (this link should work). One of the finest pieces, a 14th-century French mirror case, is illustrated below.
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Upon returning to Hungary after his exile, Ferenc Pulszky became the director of the Hungarian National Museum. Items he could not sell from the Fejérváry collection, as well as a large number of other objects he collected later in his life, are in various museums of Hungary today. János György Szilágyi writes more on him in The Hungarian Quarterly.


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Woman,102, disappointed race car couldn't go faster than 180 mph during ride
A 102-year-old woman says she's disappointed racing great Mario Andretti couldn't go faster than 180 mph during their laps around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Edith Pittenger of Muncie said she had a great time riding with Andretti in a two-seat race car Tuesday.
"He said 180 is the maximum," she told The Star Press. "I wanted to do 200, but he wouldn't do that."
Dozens of family members joined Pittenger at the speedway for what was her second trip around the track — in 2008, she rode with driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. She marked her 100th birthday two years ago by going parasailing.
Pittenger ended her latest speedway laps with a drink of milk — just like the tradition of Indy 500 winners in victory lane.
Garett Cates said he was amazed by his grandmother's sense of adventure.
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How is the order of candidates' names appearing on the ballot determined?
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Twice I have heard my name called, both times by deceased relatives. The first time was shortly after my great grandfather had passed away. I was at a sunrise church service on the beach, running around with other kids before the service started and I heard my Pop-pop say "Alison" in the way he would when reprimanding me. I stopped dead in my tracks. Of course no one else heard but me. The next time was after my maternal grandmother passed away. I was at her home with my mom and her sister helping them pack up some of her things. In her bedroom I was looking at a framed picture of her with my mother at my parent's wedding when I heard her say my name. It didn't frighten me, it was sort of comforting like she was letting me know she was okay. I have also had dreams where I have had detailed conversations with both of my hubby's grandparents after they had passed. Woke up emotional and crying from that.
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Something like this happened to a friend of mine just recently. An uncle of hers passed away early January. About a week or so after he passed away she heard her name being called out and it was his voice. She told me she was outside hanging up the laundry to dry when she heard her name. She couldn't tell where the voice was coming from. It creeped her out so that she didn't go inside the house until somebody else came to be with her.
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Emulating the great Ken Griffey Jr.
We're in Seattle, facing the Mariners, and it always takes me back to 1999, my second year in the bigs with the Twins when I finally got to play against a man I admired so much – the great Ken Griffey Jr.
My first at-bat that day at the old Kingdome, I struck out to end the inning. As I was running out on the field, he was running off. He kind of came toward me and said, "Hey, man, keep working hard and have fun with it. Enjoy the game." That really stuck with me. He was giving me a message. I was impressed that he did that. It really meant a lot to me. And still does.
That's what Ken Griffey Jr. brought to the game, that ability to have a good time while putting on a show with his incredible talent. He had his cap on backwards and was always laughing, enjoying himself. Kirby Puckett was like that, too, and that's what I wanted to be like.
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I patterned my game and my personality after those two guys, Junior and Kirby. It was one of the smartest things I ever did.
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When you think about what he's done – 625 home runs, the highlight plays with the glove, and think about all the time he's missed with injuries – he's one of the greats of all time.
I've tried to follow in the footsteps of Ken Griffey and Kirby Puckett in center field, and now maybe there are young guys watching me and wanting to play the way I do. If that's the case, it's an honor to carry on that tradition.
When I was a young guy, I used to watch everything Griffey did, especially in center field. He was The Man. We had video of him, and I studied how he'd take straight angles to the ball – A to B, not A to C. I wanted to do everything the way he did, because he was the master out there.
I never took a homer away from him – he usually gave you no chance with those monster drives he'd hit. He'd usually pull the ball, too. I did rob him of a few hits, doubles and triples. He'd just stand there and look at me. You know I loved that. The respect I have for that guy is huge.
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Hey Tori first time I saw Griffey Jr. was at a San Bernardino Spirits game in 89 it was great! I forgot you were 34 you don't look it! I was just talking about your swing with my fellow angel fan and we noticed you have a swing style that steers and lifts the ball while you hold your bat out after the swing. It really is one of a kind and I'm sure batter's are trying to emulate you as well now. We do stand on shoulders of giants when it comes to learning a trade or skill. It takes alot of practice, dedication and curiosity to be really master a craft. Once you stop learning you stop growing a manger once told me and it is so true like you pointed out. Have a nice day.
Hey Tori first time I saw Griffey Jr. was at a San Bernardino Spirits game in 89 it was great! I forgot you were 34 you don't look it! I was just talking about your swing with my fellow angel fan and we noticed you have a swing style that steers and lifts the ball while you hold your bat out after the swing. It really is one of a kind and I'm sure batter's are trying to emulate you as well now. We do stand on shoulders of giants when it comes to learning a trade or skill. It takes alot of practice, dedication and curiosity to be really master a craft. Once you stop learning you stop growing a manger once told me and it is so true like you pointed out. Have a nice day.
Whenever I am at a game I can see the Angel dugout from my seat. I always notice your smile and how you make sure you go up to all the players and mangers before the game. You and Bobby Abreu are the only two players that will go up to the managers. I have to hand it to you… you are making sure to make contact with your entire team. You are a very motivating member of your team. I am very impressed with the fact that you not only talk with your own team mates but you keep in touch with other players from other teams. BRAVO….to you Torii. Stay healthy and have fun!!!
Torii's THE MAN!!!
good game tonight guys! Torii, I've been waiting since May when you guys were last in Seattle and will be at the Wednesday game, hope you're playing and hope to meet you again!
i love facing seattle because it means i get to see The Kid's beautiful swing 🙂 (and ichiro of course). I too admire Griffey not only because of his talent but his ability to light up a room with his smile. Kind of like yourself no? I think Griffey is a very respectable ballplayer and he sets such a great example for fans/players of all ages. He's one of my fav players in baseball. Thanks for blogging about Griffey Mr Hunter 🙂 And if you haven't noticed i believe you and Junior have quite the same qualities 😀
best of luck this season!
Torii….YOU are the Man ! You are young enough to be my son…but I have tremendous respect for you as a player and as a man. I saw your attitude in the loss of Nick Adenhart and it was amazing the way you stood by them and the Angel family…I think you are one of the Angels I will always remember and respect the most…when you go into the Hall…I hope you go as an ANGEL…we love ya man ! thanks for sharing your talent with us…I hope you finish out your career as an Angel ! We appreciate you here more than you know ! B
It says alot about you Torii to have recognized that moment when Junior took the time to pass you on the field and comment. He went out of his way to reach out to you and you have carried on that tradition of mentoring that has been a staple of baseball forever. Rest assured, you are admired and looked up to by players (and non-players) at all levels. You're a fabulous man, Torii.
I don't usually post on any sites but I want you to know how you made our 30th anniversary a day we will always remember! We were married young, I was only 17, could not afford a honeymoon and when our 30th anniversary came around we are still struggling. We could not afford a proper celebration but we went to see the Angel game and you made it special. It was the game in April of 2008 that you hit the walk off grand slam! We screamed so loud we were hoarse for days. It was all worth it!! I want you to know how much your great plays and infectious smile really keep the game worth watching. I am a huge Figgins fan and loved how you went to bat for him to get to the Allstar game this year! You are a hero in my book! Thanks for the memories!
First time I found your blong Torii, glad I did you are a class act and I am so happy you've been with my favorite team.
hey, i've been watching the angels, play ever since i was a little kid, even though i live in seattle, u and vladimir have really made me feel good, when i come back to home, and i check the score and see that you and vlad each hit homeruns, i just had one question, do you think u wil make it to the world series
Hey Torii, great game last night. Glad I got to take my boyfriend for his birthday to see a great game! But, what I really wanted to show you is a bit unrelated. I opened up the LA Times today and was appalled at what I'd been subjected to in the sports section. Let me share a bit of it with you:
LA Times columnist T.J. Simers visited the Angels' clubhouse to see whether anyone had developed any charisma the last few months. Most of the pitchers were reading books, maybe the only team in baseball with so many players who can read, the whole place, though, feeling more like a library than a clubhouse. Brian Fuentes' locker was on the opposite side of the room, the other pitchers apparently not liking him. Or maybe this side of the room is for those who can't read. Whatever, I asked what it was like playing for a boring team, figuring it has to be exciting after playing previously for Colorado. I was nice too, never letting on that I knew he had lost his job as closer when the Rockies went to the World Series. "I don't know what to tell you, man," huffed Fuentes, while quickly grabbing his stuff. "I got some other stuff to do."
And my response:
Mr. Simers;
Your article just proves why no one reads the Times anymore. It was extremely rude, condescending, pessimistic, and unnecessary. I'm sorry I had to find it on Fox Sports rumors page, and be subjected to such crap. The Angels may not be "your" LA team, but they deserve some respect. As a player, Fuentes deserved more than your immature speculations about his locker placement. Pretty low blow. I would hope someone with professional writing experience would do better to leave his personal biases in his living room than to take them to print and sound like a tantrum throwing five year old. Wow, is all I have to say to that. I'm ashamed to even be a subscriber of this paper. I might think twice about renewing it if this is the kind of thing I'm going to be subjected to when looking for news about my LA teams.
And on another note, I would think we'd be proud of players that enjoy reading and encourage an education. As a public school English teacher, I'm offended that anyone would make reading sound "dull" or "boring" especially when there are young people reading your articles. I hope none of them take you seriously enough to change their reading patterns because you think reading makes for "boring" people.
I'm sad that I have to turn the page in the actual paper and see it glaring at me a full page of nonsense, rumor-laden bias. Thanks for alienating a reader that USED to have respect for journalistic media.
Stacy Morrison
Just wanted to raise awareness about how terrible our sports media can be. As an English teacher, I highly praise the emphasis on education, literacy, and education that your team has displayed. I can't believe anyone would make that out to be a negative, and they wonder why our students these days think reading is for the "uncool" – our media is almost wanting our youth to be ignorant so that they'll have to rely on the opinions of people like this guy in the paper. I've never been so angry and put off in my life.


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Jim signs on for new film!!!!
Discuss this movie. Filmed April 29-June 30, 2008
Available on DVD and Blu-ray.
From another site
"Jim Carrey has signed on the dotted line to play a married man who falls in love with and becomes obsessed with his prison cellmate.
I Love You Philip Morris is an indie comedy from the writers of Bad Santa, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.
Carrey has reportedly taken a hefty pay cut to work on the project. He's currently a $20m-a-movie man and the budget for I Love You stands at $20m in total."
he'll be on a percentage..................but the backing company is owned by Luc Besson who is known for his seriously classy approach.......i doubt he would be backing it if it was a surefire Turkey Twizzler........lmao
I am so overjoyed with this information.
I think it's cool that he's gonna play a gay guy in prison. It's very interesting and cool to watch.
He's doing it right - I mean that he signs up for that kind of thing. A new thing is always good because it's new. And it really doesn't matter if it works out (but of course, if it does - it's great) or not but eventually it's the Jim Movie and that says it all.
I like that he's full of different ideas. And I hope that he won't "fall out" of this movie. Like it was with the one that should've cast Cameron Diaz as well.
Gay movies are always interesting to watch.
So many thoughts come to mind...
And of course after it's released everyone will gossip about whether Jim is gay or not.
It's fun too.
more information about the leading role
Ok!! Here is the man!! Steve Russell!! I love this story!! what a genius!! also I love the impersonator/roles thing, Jim will pull it off, but again.. what a story!!
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No need to worry about that, they got talent and can produce a solid script. If there is good Directing and Acting it should be fine.
It's a Dramedy!
"No time outs. Only DEATH!"
"I don't like to brag and I won't cuz I don't have to!"
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Jim Carrey will play Steven Russell, who is real and is still alive, I wish Jim visit him at Jail to do what he did with Andy Kaufman (a perfect performance!). Here you have some of the amazing story of this con man, it´s really a film! and a very good one, and the perfect role for Jim:
"Over the years, Russell has had at least 14 known aliases. His every escape and escape attempt has happened on Friday 13 and during his escapes he has masqueraded as a judge, a physician and a handyman, to name only few. Russell might have impersonated a Boca Raton, Florida police officer in 1980 and 1981.
In May 21, 1993 Russell got out of Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas wearing civilian clothes he had obtained. Afterwards he fabricated bogus credentials and got a job as a CFO of North American Medical Management. He proceeded to embezzle thousands of dollars from the company. In 1995 he was eventually caught and imprisoned for insurance fraud and again placed into Harris County Jail where he met Phillip Morris, who became his lover.
In 1996 Russell escaped from Harris County Jail; he impersonated a judge and ordered his own bond decreased from $900,000 to the $45,000 that he easily met. He was arrested 10 days later in Florida and shipped back to Texas. Later the same year he colored a white prison uniform green, masqueraded as a prison doctor and walked out.
In 1998 he was again in the Harris County Jail serving a 45-year sentence for theft of $800,000 from a Houston company that manages physician's finances plus 20 years for a previous escape. In February 24 he persuaded a prison doctor that he had AIDS and had someone outside to authorize a special needs parole to Houston hospital - in March Friday 13. Later he got Phillip Morris transferred to the Dallas County Jail and tried to have him released - he even visited him masquerading as a lawyer.
In March 1998 Russell posed as a Virginian millionaire and on March 20 tried to take a $75,000 loan from NationsBank in Dallas. When bank officials got suspicious and alerted the police, Russell feigned a heart attack and was transported to a hospital. The FBI placed him under guard, but Russell managed to impersonate a FBI agent on the phone and state that he was no longer wanted. He disappeared."
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Jay_Russell
Yeah! a new film. Great. I love dark comedies. Keeping Mum etc. I dont care that Jim is playing a homosexual man. Should be a really funny film from where Im sitting.
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A pair of shootings amid Halloween revelry in Los Angeles on Wednesday night — one in Hollywood, the other at the University of Southern California's campus — left at least two people in critical condition and at least another five wounded.
At least three people were shot in Hollywood during Halloween celebrations that became unruly, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, and in a separate shooting, one person was in custody after a shooting at USC left four people wounded outside a Halloween event.
The Hollywood shooting went down shortly before 10 p.m., Los Angeles police Sgt. Andrew Chao of the Hollywood Station told City News Service. There, Chao said, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest and leg and taken to the hospital in critical condition, while a 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot and a 25-year-old man was struck in the buttocks. The pair was also transported to the hospital.
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It was not immediately clear whether the shooter or shooters were apprehended, though aerial footage of the scene showed at least two people being detained by LAPD officers.
Officers had already been deployed in the area due to Halloween celebrations. Unruly crowds began to form up and down Hollywood Boulevard throughout the night, and it appeared that as soon as officers stabilized one area, another area would erupt in violence.
Early reports suggested revelers were fighting and throwing bottles, and dozens of cops in riot gear — as well as throngs of officers on mounted patrol, bicycles and motorcycles as well as LAFD crews — started descending on the scene shortly after largely costumed crowds spilled into traffic, ran in between cars and confronted officers starting as early as 9:30 p.m.
At USC, meanwhile, a dispute between two non-students led to the shooting around 11:45 p.m. that left one victim in critical condition, according to Assistant Chief John Thomas of the USC Department of Pubic Safety.
Two people were initially detained in the shooting, said Cmdr. Bob Green, of the LAPD Southwest Division.
"The intended target is in critical condition. At one point, we know a gun came out. He was targeted because he was involved in an argument with the shooter," Green said. He said the other three victims have non-life-threatening injuries.
One person was released Thursday morning, and a gun was recovered, police said.
Witnesses told NBC4 that about 150 to 200 people were waiting to enter the Halloween event when two individuals began arguing at the back of the line. Only guests with student identification were allowed into the party.
"All of the sudden, we heard gunshots," said student Matt Hamilton. "You hear one, and it jolts you. You hear another, so four, maybe five, all within a few seconds."
Astrid Solorzano and a friend took cover against a bench as people ran from the location.
"It was frantic," said Solorzano. "There were a lot of people who were scared. We saw tears in people's eyes."
Fourteen Campus Department of Public Safety officers were assigned to cover the event.
USC's Department of Public Safety had issued a Trojan Alert, asking students to "shelter in place and avoid opening doors for unknown persons," according to the campus newspaper the Daily Trojan.
They have since sent out an alert that read: "The scene is secure at the Tutor Campus Center on The University Park campus. There is an ongoing police investigation in progress."


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Sparse. That's a good word to describe the population density of Eastern Massachusetts in the late 19th century. In 1895, Eastern Massachusetts was empty, from an early 21st century perspective. Compared to its 2010 population just north of 33,800, Chelmsford, Massachusetts had 3,162 people living within its borders in 1895. Its neighbor to the south, Billerica, had 2,577 inhabitants, compared to its 2010 population, which surpassed 40,000. In comparison, Boston (proper) counted approximately 497,000 residents compared to today's count of about 620,000.
So, where do you go to find the residents of a 19th century town? One place would be the town common, or more specifically, the town water pump – often located nearby. This is where newspapermen loitered in hopes of capturing the best stories for that elusive next edition. Their best sources, they found, were the people who congregated around the pump, or, as they called them, the "village wiseacres." Indeed, in Billerica, the wiseacres told newspapermen about church scandals, wranglings of high society in town, and even burglaries that had townspeople talking. And not only newspapermen sought out the town pump. Town constables would sometimes go there if they needed some ready deputies to help them capture their latest criminal.
Indeed, the effects of that case reverberated across Billerica for years after the men responsible were apprehended and jailed. Two-and-a-half years later, in February 1897, newspapermen learned from the "village wiseacres" that John Bull, a storeowner near town center, had suffered several recent break-ins and had since spent several nights awake in his store, double-barreled shotgun at full-cock, ready for the next time the burglars attempted entry. The story appeared in the Lowell Sun on February 4 of that year, and no further burglaries at his store were reported.
That same rash of burglaries hit the harness shop of Herbert A. King, who might have lost more than a few harnesses if a milkman, making his early-morning rounds, hadn't frightened them away as they were making ready to escape. The wiseacres at the town pump saw him looking for his harnesses along Main Street the next morning and reported it to the newspaperman, who submitted it the the paper for publication.
The newspapermen even learned news of Constable Livingston at the town pump, who in the link above, had the most noteworthy encounter with burglars. The wiseacres reported that Livingston had been seen on the outskirts of Billerica, taking shots at trees. He apparently wanted to make sure that his revolver didn't jam again, as it had on the night that left Deroy Foster dead, and which allowed the highwaymen to escape. A story even emerged that Livingston had shot a pumpkin off the head of a local farmer, to prove the truth of his aim, which had been questioned in the days following the murder.
In the days before television (and even radio), news travelled by word of mouth and the town pump was a popular place to congregate, to receive and spread the latest news of the town. The wiseacres found a ready audience for their gossip and the newspapermen found a ready source of material for their impending deadlines.


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BENNINGTON -- The state has filed a human trafficking charge, as well as a charge of promoting a sexual recording, against a Bennington man already accused of engaging in sexual acts with a 14-year-old early last year.
Peter A. Goewey, 59, of Autumn Acres Road, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Bennington Superior Court Criminal Division to aggravated human trafficking of a child under 18 years of age, and promoting a sexual recording. He reentered not guilty pleas to repeated aggravated sexual assault of a child, possession of child pornography, and sexual assault - no consent. He was arraigned on the initial charges on April 27, 2012 and has been held without bail since.
Should Goewey be convicted, the human trafficking charge carries a minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, while the aggravated repeated sexual assault carries a base of 25 years.
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According to a more recent affidavit in which a Bennington police detective writes about digital information recovered from a computer and cell from seized from Goewey's home, the boy told police that Goewey offered him money for the photos, but the boy refused. He said Goewey gave him $40 all the same then another $50 not to tell anyone. Police said the images found were of male genitals and they were able to match the type of underwear depicted with a pair the boy owns, as well as link the type of tile on the floor to that of the bowling alley's bathroom, where the boy said he took the photos allegedly sent to Goewey.
Deputy State's Attorney Christina Rainville said in an interview that the newer charges were only passed in 2011 and given a closer reading by the state, it was determined they applied.
Bennington attorney Daniel M. McManus, who represents Goewey, said in an interview the human trafficking charge was not intended to be applied to the sort of behavior being alleged. He said the state's reading of the statute is "tortured, at best" and that prosecutors are "Trying to fit a square peg into a round hole."
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Since leaving Woodinville-based FSA in 2008, wheel-building legend Ric Hjertberg has kept his work largely shrouded in mystery.
Now the story can be told: Hjertberg has been working on innovative unibody, featherweight, aerodynamic, bullet-strong, all-carbon wheels. His new company, Mad Fiber, is in production at the former Essential Bakery in north Seattle and expects to have wheelsets on the street by July. They are road only initially but mountain bike wheels are on the boards as well.
"We've created the wheel as a single unit, where forces flow gracefully from component to component," Hjertberg says.
Translated: Energy from the rider gets distributed evenly and more directly throughout the wheel, providing more direct and efficient transference of power on acceleration and climbs.
"Our goal is singularity, a unit with organic transitions — much as found in nature, where force and function move smoothly, not abruptly."
Let's just say they're really cool.
Wheels are the one place on a bike where carbon has been under-optimized, Hjertberg feels. During the carbon revolution of the past decade, frames, handlebars, cranksets and even small components on shifters and derailleurs have been honed to greater strength and reliability through constant R&D.
Wheels have been part of the mix but held back by conventional concept and design, resulting usually in a hybrid of carbon and other materials.
Mad Fiber wheels look like they're stamped from a single piece of material, much like CNC-machined components. The blade spokes flow directly out of the rim, meeting at the hub not so much in a flange but a hood of carbon (the hub itself is titanium). Although the wheel starts out in bits and pieces, it's nearly impossible to tell where each begins and ends by the time the final wheel materializes.
The result isn't cheap: Mad Fiber wheels will retail around $2,600, which most people consider pretty expensive for an entire bike. Carbon as a material is not costly (it's plastic, after all), but custom molds run $10,000 to $20,000 apiece. Over time amortization will bring down cost, but out of the gate any new carbon component is pricey. And Mad Fiber's target price, cheap next to some wheelsets like the Reynolds RZR at $6,000, is well in the range of Easton's EC90 SL, which retails for $1,800.
In return customers get a weight — 1085 grams per wheel set — that seemingly defies the laws of physics, with strength and performance unmatched by anything metal. During the recent Tour of California, George Hincapie gashed the front rim of his carbon Easton EC90 tubular clear through the sidewall. The wheel not only held together but stayed true while Hincapie completed the stage.
With the bemused engineer's sense of irony that marks much of Hjertberg's world view, Ric notes how fitting it is to be "cooking" carbon parts in a space that formerly housed Seattle's leading organic bakery. Essential's cafe is still at its familiar lower Wallingford location, but the bakery part moved to Georgetown in March. At Mad Fiber, carbon is baked in custom molds by white-cloaked engineers, then glued and finished on location.
"Our ovens go to 350, we bring stuff out and cool it, cut it into little shapes, make our little pastries, put 'em in the oven," he said. "At the end of the day, it's not that different."
It's all very Mom 'n Pop right now. Hjertberg said he "could have gone the Taiwan route" (where most of the world's carbon cycling production is based) but liked the idea of soup-to-nuts control over the process. And Mad Fiber joins a growing number of American startups that can stamp their products "Made in U.S.A." without fudging.
Hjertberg's latest venture marks a return to roots of sorts. Working out of a tiny shop in Palo Alto, Hjertberg and his brother Jon rose to prominence in the late 1970s with Wheelsmith wheel sets that became synonymous with strength, quality and attention to detail. By the mid-1980s pros everywhere were using them and the shop expanded rapidly into downtown Palo Alto.
Wheelsmith eventually outgrew Hjertberg's interest in running a big company, and FSA's fledgling operation, which was doing pioneering work of its own with carbon, attracted him to the Northwest. After FSA he worked on wooden wheels and founded the popular wheel tech blog, Wheel Fanatyk.
Mad Fiber started out as an idea in Hjertberg's Madison (the "Mad" part) Park basement. Ric credits aerospace designer and Mad Fiber chief technologist Max Kismarton with much of the tech ingenuity, comparing himself as a sous cook to Kismarton's head chef. Russ Riggins, chief operating and financial officer, is a cycling enthusiast with more than three decades of experience helping startups. Hjertberg says the idea was always to come up with a different name, but angel investors liked it and it stuck.
Hjertberg has funding to see Mad Fiber well through early production — two sets a day through the end of the year — but continues to seek financing, drawing on Seattle's active cycling culture and venture wealth. Mad Fiber also is pursuing partnerships with industry names for distribution and marketing.
The Seattle area is a perfect seed bed for innovative design, Hjertberg says — reminiscent of the San Francisco Bay Area during the first wave of the Euro-inspired bike boom when Wheelsmith rose to prominence. Puget Sound's aerospace and maritime industries provide a rich source of engineering acumen as well as lots of small companies doing creative things in sporting goods.
"This is a fantastic location to be doing what we're doing," Hjertberg said.
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I'm posting this here because I haven't found a place to post it on the FAQ pages or in the Wiki.
All entries for the FAQ or the Wiki should have either date when the entry was created or a revision date. It would also be useful if the Kanotix version to which it applies is stated.
Reading through the FAQ or the Wiki, it is obvious that many of the entries are out of date or obsolete for the current version. It would be great if everything was current, but that's not practical with an enterprise that is almost entirely voluntary. Consequently, a date or a version number would allow someone to quickly determine if the information was appropriate for his/her situation.
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Amazon Says It's "All Hands On Deck" As Cloud Troubles Enter Day Two
It's now officially been about 29 hours since the first signs of trouble emerged on Amazon Web Services, trouble that at its worst brought down a good slice of the Web along with it. Yesterday was a bad day for cloud computing.
While most of the larger sites that were initially affected–like Foursquare and Quora–have come back, lots of other sites are still having trouble. The New York Times special project site is still down, as is the news application page on ProPublica. Everyblock remains offline this morning. Heroku said it was partially back, but still working to restore shared databases. Two sites popular with the Hollywood crowd, Harry Knowles' Ain't It Cool News and Box Office Mojo were both down this morning.
One site that caught my eye on Twitter this morning was Blue Sombrero, which offers a service for clubs and organizations to register its members online for events. It took to Facebook this morning to vent its frustration and apologize to its customers. There are still, apparently, lots of Blue Sombreros out there. A site called EC2disabled.com purports to be a complete list of sites affected by the outage.
Amazon continues to send intermittent status updates via its dashboard, but it's difficult to get much of an idea as to when they expect to be fully back to normal, though minutes ago it said it is starting to see "meaningful progress" in getting things under control. These are the latest messages from its EC2 status feed:
6:18 AM PT We're starting to see more meaningful progress in restoring volumes (many have been restored in the last few hours) and expect this progress to continue over the next few hours. We expect that we'll reach a point where a minority of these stuck volumes will need to be restored with a more time consuming process, using backups made to S3 yesterday (these will have longer recovery times for the affected volumes). When we get to that point, we'll let folks know. As volumes are restored, they become available to running instances, however they will not be able to be detached until we enable the API commands in the affected Availability Zone.
Earlier it said:
2:41 AM PT We continue to make progress in restoring volumes but don't yet have an estimated time of recovery for the remainder of the affected volumes. We will continue to update this status and provide a time frame when available.
And before that:
10:58 PM PT Just a short note to let you know that the team continues to be all-hands on deck trying to add capacity to the affected Availability Zone to re-mirror stuck volumes. It's taking us longer than we anticipated to add capacity to this fleet. When we have an updated ETA or meaningful new update, we will make sure to post it here. But, we can assure you that the team is working this hard and will do so as long as it takes to get this resolved.
One of the companies listed on the EC2 Disabled site is Sony Online Entertainment. It's probably just a coincidence, and its Web site is up this morning. However, it's notable because of another ongoing outage now in its second day as well, of Sony's Playstation gaming network. It's latest official blog entry says the network may be down for a day or two.
The buzz about this outage, though Sony hasn't addressed it, is that it's the result of another attack by Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers who are outraged at Sony's recently settled legal fight with George Hotz. Known by the nom-de-keyboard GeoHot, Hotz had figured out a way to jailbreak the Playstation 3 so that it could run games not approved by Sony. Anonymous has denied involvement. The outage started Wednesday night and coincided with the release of three big games.